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| FIFA passes sweeping reforms with 89 percent of members in favour | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA on Friday passed a series of sweeping reforms as it looks to clean up world soccer's governing body following years of corruption. The delegates voted in the reforms, which include term limits for top officials and disclosure of their earnings, with 89 percent of members in favour. FIFA will later elect a new president to take over from Sepp Blatter who has been banned from football for six years for ethics violations. (Writing by Ossian Shine; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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| German FA General Secretary resigns as World Cup report looms | | | German Football Association (DFB) General Secretary Helmut Sandrock resigned on Friday, saying the scandal-hit association needed to make a clean start. FIFA is due to elect a new President later on Friday. The DFB is set to present an independent report it commissioned into the affair next week. |
| Villages ban single women from owning "distracting" mobile phones | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Several villages in Gujarat have banned girls and single women from owning mobile phones, saying the devices distract them from their studies. A couple of villages in Mehsana and Banaskantha districts in Gujarat have imposed the ban in recent weeks, with more villages joining the campaign, said Ranjit Singh Thakor, president of the Mehsana district council. The ban applies to girls under the age of 18 and unmarried women, he said. |
| Authorities piece together motive in Kansas shooting rampage | | | (Reuters) - Authorities in Kansas were investigating on Friday the motives of a gunman who killed three people and wounded 14 during a shooting spree that ended when an officer killed the suspect at the factory where he worked. "This is a horrible situation my friends, just terrible," Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said at a late evening press conference. The Kansas killings follow a mass shooting in Michigan this weekend, when a driver for car-hailing service Uber killed six people. |
| U.N. envoy voices fears on North Korea-Russia extradition pact | |  The U.N. human rights investigator for North Korea called on Russia on Friday not to uphold a new extradition treaty with Pyongyong, voicing fears that North Koreans seeking asylum could be forced back home in violation of international law. An estimated 10,000 North Koreans are regular labourers in Russia, and some stay after their contracts have expired to seek asylum, said Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
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| China state TV airs confession by lawyer who helped Christian groups | | | A well-known Chinese rights lawyer has appeared on state television confessing to crimes after a months-long disappearance, the latest case in China's widening crackdown on dissent. Zhang Kai had represented a group of Christians who were detained for suspected financial crimes last year after they resisted the demolition of crosses. Heavily Christian Wenzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, was the site of protests in 2014 over a government campaign to demolish crosses. |
| Big turnout as Iran votes to shape post-sanctions era | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians voted in elections on Friday likely to determine the pace of their emergence from years of economic isolation, with Iran's top leader, a stern critic of detente with the West, urging a big turnout to snub the country's "enemies". There were early signs of enthusiastic participation in Iran's first polls since a nuclear deal last year led to a lifting of sanctions and deeper diplomatic engagement abroad. The vote could determine whether the Islamic Republic continues to emerge from effective diplomatic and economic quarantine after years of sanctions.
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| Blatter disappointed soccer ban upheld by FIFA appeal body - paper | |  Longtime FIFA President Sepp Blatter is disappointed the global soccer body's appeal committee upheld his ban from the sport, he told a Swiss newspaper in an interview published on Friday. "I am deeply disappointed," Blatter told the Aargauer Zeitung when asked about the decision to uphold the ban. For a financial procedure that has nothing to do with ethics." Blatter and European soccer head Michel Platini had their bans for ethics violations upheld on Wednesday, although they were reduced from eight years to six.
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| Eleven killed in mass Papua New Guinea jail break - media | | | Police in Papua New Guinea shot and killed 11 prisoners and wounded 17 after a mass prison breakout in the Pacific nation's second largest city, PNG media outlet EMTV reported on Friday. More than 30 prisoners attacked two guards at the Buimo prison in Lae, nearly 320 km (200 miles) north of the Papua New Guinea capital, Port Moresby, before escaping, EMTV said. "It is confirmed that 11 prisoners have been shot and killed and 17 wounded and recaptured," EMTV quoted Metropolitan Superintendent Anthony Wagambie as saying. |
| Gunman kills three in Kansas workplace, shot to death by police | | | A gunman killed three people on Thursday at a manufacturing plant in central Kansas where he worked and wounded 14 others, in a shooting spree spanning several miles that ended when a lone officer killed the suspect, authorities said. While many of his victims were coworkers, overall the attacker appears to have opened fire at random, said Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton of the mass killing that struck fear in Hesston and the town's major employer, a lawnmower manufacturing company. The Kansas shootings come after a Michigan man who worked as a driver for car-hailing service Uber was charged with killing six people during a shooting rampage this past weekend. |
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